In an article featured in Science China Earth Sciences, researchers from Tianjin University elucidate the coupling relationship between soil fungi and reactive minerals in ecosystems by utilizing ...

LAWRENCE —A burgeoning billion-dollar industry woos farmers and gardeners with promises of achieving better, more environmentally friendly harvests through symbiotic fungi that bond with plant ...

For a long time, soil was all but ignored. But for years, the valuable humus layer has been thinning. Farmers in Brandenburg ...

CeraMax contains the active ingredient Natamycin, a biological molecule produced by soil bacteria that prevents soil-borne ...

Fruiting fungi that appear on growing substrates of potted plants are generally no cause for concern. They appear due to the ...

Some fungi have been very helpful to humans, like the ascomycetous fungi that generate the antibiotic penicillin. Scientists have now identified a soil fungus called Mortierella alpina that produces ...

The environment is suffering, too. With so many people hunting for the fungus, they’re damaging the delicate mountain soil, cutting down trees for firewood and leaving trash at their camps.

Fungus gnats are small black flies, also known as sciarid flies, mushroom flies and mycetophilids. They are a very common pest, especially when plants are grown in pots of soil-free compost. In fact, ...